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"I can’t be," Nick says

"There are hurricanes," I say "You forgot about the little area known as The Gulf of Mexico But there aren’t any tornadoes"

They both pause

"There’s definitely tornadoes," Gavin says as he rolls his head

"No," I say "There’s no such thing as tornadoes, Gavin Chuck Norris just hates trailer parks"

There is a hter Eddie scoots closer to me in the backseat and cups her hand to my ear

"He knows"

I hold iveabout

"Who knows? And what does he know?" I finally ask

"Nick He knows you aren’t interested He's fine with it There’s no pressure We’re just friends tonight, all of us"

I’ out hoould let hiet to taste the pizza froht It’s heaven We had to order two, since Nick is eating a whole one by hi ht about Will, (thatfun It’s nice

"Gavin, what’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?" Nick asks

We all quiet down at this question

"I can only pick one?" Gavin asks

"The one The stupidest one," Nick replies

"Hrandparents on their ranch right outside of Lara deal, I’ deal was that it was my turn"

"For what?" I ask

"To complete the dare My brothers used to dare me to do stuff all the time They would do it first, and then I’d have to do it The only probleer by several years so they always outsmarted me somehow This particular day, they told me my rubber boots were too wet to wear so I had to throw onboots They, of course, wore their rubber boots Well, they came up with the dare to see ould pee on the electric fence"

"You didn’t," Eddie laughs

"Oh, just wait, Babe It gets better They went first, which I realize now that rubber absorbs electricity, so they didn’t feel anything I, on the other hand, was not so lucky It knocked et up when I tripped I fell forward and met the fence with my mouth Saliva and electricity don’t ue started to swell and et ing out ofso hard we get glares from the other customers Eddie wipes away a tear when Gavin tells her it’s her turn

"I guess when I ran over you with ain," Gavin says

"What? That’s it! That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever done"

"What about after you ran over hs

"We fell in love The end" She’s obviously embarrassed by the aftermath of the swipe

"You have to tell us now," I say

"Fine It was the second day after I gotsuper careful I was focused When Joel was teaching me to drive, he paid careful attention to how I parked He hates people who double park In fact, I kneas going to have so lot just to double checkjob, so I really wanted to be perfect So, that’s what I was focused on I didn’t like how I parked the first time"

"Or the second, third or fourth time," Gavin says

Eddie set it right I backed out extra far to get a better angle and that’s when it happened The thud I turned around and didn’t see anyone so I panicked, thinking I had hit the car next toI continued to back out of the spot and threw the car in drive and was looking for a better spot so that I could inspect the car for daot out That’s when I saw hi to hold back the laughter

"Over 200 yards After I hit hi up in the bu to sue, he made me take food to him at the hospital every day for a week That’s e fell in love"

"You’re lucky you didn’t kill hie and involuntary hter Poor Gavin would be ten feet under"

"Six feet under!" I laugh

"I’d love to hear your stupid story Layken, but it’s gonna have to wait We’re gonna be late," Eddie says as she scoots out of the booth

On our drive to the slam, Eddie pulls a folded up sheet of paper out of her back pocket

"What’s that?" I ask her

"It’s ht"